This is an interesting question, though I am somewhat concerned that the responses will be biased towards high numbers because people who work relatively fewer hours may be less likely to respond. I would give much more weight to an anonymous survey.
On a different note, I have personally found it useful to track my working hours using Toggl Track (https://toggl.com/track/). This has given me a much more accurate sense of how many hours I usually work per week and how long I should expect projects to take.
FWIW, I also think it’s plausible responses will be biased towards low numbers because people want to be avoid looking like they’re bragging, don’t want to contribute to people’s stress, etc.
(But to be clear, I’m not saying I expect those different sources of bias to cancel out—it seems hard to say what the net bias would be—and so also endorse the idea of giving more weight to an anonymous survey.)
This is an interesting question, though I am somewhat concerned that the responses will be biased towards high numbers because people who work relatively fewer hours may be less likely to respond. I would give much more weight to an anonymous survey.
On a different note, I have personally found it useful to track my working hours using Toggl Track (https://toggl.com/track/). This has given me a much more accurate sense of how many hours I usually work per week and how long I should expect projects to take.
FWIW, I also think it’s plausible responses will be biased towards low numbers because people want to be avoid looking like they’re bragging, don’t want to contribute to people’s stress, etc.
(But to be clear, I’m not saying I expect those different sources of bias to cancel out—it seems hard to say what the net bias would be—and so also endorse the idea of giving more weight to an anonymous survey.)